Animal Collective - People ep

Apparently an Australian tour ep, import is available now, but will be released (and a little cheaper) January 23, 2007. Something nice to tide us over until the next album is out- 20 mins. of new AC! Here is a short review someone wrote on Amazon:

One thing you can count on Animal Collective for: Evolution.

The acid-rockers continue getting weirder and weirder in the "People" EP, which apparently heralds their latest twists in sonic experimentation. This is less pastoral and more acid-soaked than their last album, and if this is their new direction, then listeners will probably be happy to follow them.

It opens with the gentle, melodious strums and little piano plinks. The melody starts to pick up, and heavy strings and harmonies start to weave around it. Then... buzzy synth kicks in, rattling and obscuring the catchy melody until the whole title track is a tangled fuzz opera, complete with bloodcurdling yowls.

There's also a live version of this, which is more stripped-down and less synthed. It's still pretty eerie and screechy by the finale. In between these, there are two other songs: the sunny, crazyfolk "Tikwid" and the creepy ambient "My Favorite Colors," which is like listening to an opera aria underwater.

Apparently "People" is a sample of what's to come for Animal Collective. Yes, it's totally insane -- in a good way.

After years of working together, this band has gotten very polished -- they can weave together intricate tapestries of synth, lo-fi indie-rock, piano, whistles, sirens, and acidic washes of strings and fuzz. These are overlaid over catchy melodies and samples, creating very layered music that never sounds the same twice.

I'll be honest here -- that earsplitting screeching in the live "People" is really annoying, as is the expanding scream in the original. But otherwise the Animal Collective sounds great here -- Beatles-on-acid warbles in "Tikwid," ghostly noises, and howls of "yeah yeah YEAH!" throughout the title track.

"People" is a pretty weird, wild EP, and fans of Animal Collective will be thrilled by their new spins on their usual sound. Bizarre, breezy and absolutely mad.

Good, 2007 starts strong.

yeah I've got this ordered already. I didn't realize it was gonna come out in the states.

Yeah, you can get the import for $10.99 on Amazon now, very tempting, but I've decided to wait...

would you guys describe the animal collective music to me ? it seems interesting but i've never heard them at all...

just listen to some sound samples. you're on the internets, after all.

  nene multiple assgasms said:

just listen to some sound samples. you're on the internets, after all.

dissapointing answer;

correct information.

this ep is nothing special really..nice but..weak

Sung Tongs

isn't there a new live album out also? i read a bad review of it somewhere but live they were incredible when i saw them

yeah, hollinndagain is a re-release of a very limited live album. it's not bad.

people is catchy. yeah yeeeeah yeah yyeeeeeeah. nothing spectacular but i likey

also liking that grizzly bear album which sometimes sounds a little animalcollectivy

this isn't really a sign of what's to come. these were recorded at the same time as feels. if you want a sign of what's to come download a bootleg of reverend green.

never

sung tongs

yeah this is a nice addition to feels.